Tag: Fat

The claws of diet culture dig in early, and they dig in deep.

If struggling parents feed their kids KFC, is it nutritional neglect or love?

“[E]verything has changed, but everything is exactly the same.”

Fat ladies are bad optics.

A fat person walking into a doctor’s office can expect lectures, condescension, and misdiagnoses from a medical culture that chalks every health issue up to weight.

Colin Gillis is happy with most of the changes a massive weight change have brought, but finds unexpectedness sadness and loss, too.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner explores America’s history of obsession with thinness and her own struggles with her body.

Roxane Gay on her new memoir and on gaining acceptance for the female body in every shape and size.

Carmen Maria Machado’s stunning essay in Guernica on the power of women who take up space is an important read for people of any size.

This week, read stories by Mark MacKinnon, Rachel Cusk, Carmen Maria Machado, Suketu Mehta, and an excerpt from Bill Hayes.

After navigating a lifetime of being fat (and ashamed) in the US, Jonatha Kottler moved to the Netherlands and found a whole new universe of exclusion.

Sara Benincasa’s essay “Why Am I So Fat?” was one of our top five reads last week, and with good reason — it was honest and cutting in all the right ways. It was brash and unapologetic and funny as hell (and also suggests that perhaps Fader was slightly premature in declaring, earlier this year, that […]